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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: A Hermeneutics of Intersubjectivity
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Reclaiming Alternative Modalities of Feminine Power
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The Feminine Principle in Hindu Thought and Practice: Problems and Possibilities
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"The role of the female within the Hindu tradition is both varied and vigorous, as the multiple contributors to this text reveal. They bring together scholarship and sensitivity in conveying unique dimensions and valuable perceptions of that role.This book is an important read for anyone seeking to comprehend female spirituality and divinity in the Hindu context." - Ramdas Lamb, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Hawaii at Manoa"The essays in this outstanding volume successfully avoid the common pitfalls of, on the one hand, objectifying and exoticizing the various Hindu categories and concepts with which they engage, and on the other, of deploying these same categories and concepts in a simplistic and uncritical manner. The hermeneutics of intersubjectivity that the authors skillfully apply to their materials should be a model for future work in the field of Hindu studies." - Jeffery D. Long, Associate Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College, and author of A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism and Jainism: An Introduction"This book skillfully addresses all things feminine in Indian traditions: goddesses, female gurus, the lives of Hindu women, and more.Includes many excellent new translations of key passages from Sanskrit litereature." - Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University
About the authors
RITA SHARMA is Director of the Institute For Theology Beyond Boundaries and Executive Director of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Taksha Institute, Hampton, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Woman and Goddess in Hinduism
Book Subtitle: Reinterpretations and Re-envisionings
Editors: Tracy Pintchman, Rita D. Sherma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119925
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11369-5Published: 12 July 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29540-1Published: 12 July 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11992-5Published: 29 August 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 243
Topics: Feminism, Gender Studies, History of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Religious Studies, general, Hinduism